Time Travel

During some spring cleaning I was poring through the 24 years of handwritten journals I've been keeping to see what I was up to on any given March 18th, and for the most part, it's been a pretty non-eventful date. In fact, in some years there is either a token "Had the day off, was lazy", or no entry at all. Here is a selection of (in my opinion) the less-boring ones:

• 1989 - Since I was taking a year off from college and I had time to kill, I was at the beginning of a 3-month return visit to Topeka, KS to hang out with all of the friends I'd made the previous year at Washburn University (my freshman year of college). Since my friends were all busy, I spent the day in my old dorm's lounge reading Alan Dean Foster's "Mission to Moulokin", and talking to old friends; and the evening cooking the guys dinner at the 1-bedroom off-campus apartment four of us shared. I made fried chicken and cornbread, and a lot of it.
• 1990 - I was enrolled at UMass-Dartmouth (back when it was still Southeastern MA University) as an art major. On this day (a Sunday) I began the day at my 9am - 3pm prep cook shift at King's Court Restaurant in North Dartmouth. My boss Joel (a goofy-looking jackass) wasn't in that day, so I spent the day cooking and happily flirting with a cute coworker (ah, Michelle...). When I got home I worked out (curling bar, push-ups & crunches) for an hour or so, and then worked on a project for my 2-D class.
• 1991 - Back in the world of retail (I was all over the map geographically, academically and professionally in the early 90's), on this Monday I worked the day shift at Ann & Hope in Watertown, MA. I'd received my state tax refund before work, so I was in great spirits. I spent the evening in my Allston apartment watching "Bird on a Wire" in my room and playing my Nintendo GameBoy (which I still have, amazingly).
• 1992 - Still living in Allston, I was an usher at the now-defunct Circle Cinema in Brookline, MA. On this Wednesday night I was working, and I watched almost the entire showing of "Cutting Edge". My shift didn't begin until 5 pm, but there was nothing written for how I'd spent the early part of my day.
• 2006 - I spent the day reading Mark Kurlansky's "Salt", and lamenting the fact that this far into 2006 (and my exile on Cape Cod) I hadn't yet been to a single concert, party or bar!

Note that from 1992 to 2006 there wasn't anything worthwhile of note to print here. It's either very strange how nothing interesting happened, or just proof that most days are pretty ordinary. Here is today's entry:

• 2010 - I had all the windows open today in order to take advantage of the fresh spring air. When I was online job-hunting I found a fantastic deal on a 4-person golf outing for my dad's birthday gift. Alas, bankrolling it severely drained my disposable income, which will prevent me from going to see Vanessa Kafka live in Boston tomorrow night with Brian - sorry chum! Finally, I came across the music of the amazing Miranda Lee Richards and spent a couple dollars on her "Early November" EP. I added that and Volcano Playground's free (off their Facebook page) 5-song EP "Waiting" to my iPod.
  

Perhaps I'll try this again in a few weeks. I am sure there will be a more interesting date to revisit than this one.

In-Blog Play:

Life Boat - Miranda Lee Richar...